Serpukhov
To Commander-in-Chief Vatsetis
and Member of the Revolutionary War Council Aralov

Advance into the Galician and Bukovinian territories is necessary for establishing connection with Soviet Hungary. This task

* G. M. Rabkin reported to V. I. Lenin by telegram that a bicycle was extremely necessary for him in order to maintain contact with a doctor living far from the pharmacy. Ed.

must be solved more rapidly and more solidly, but beyond this task no occupation of Galicia and Bukovina is needed, because the Ukrainian army must under no circumstances and in no case be diverted from its two principal tasks, namely: the first, most important and most urgent
— to assist the Donbass. This assistance must be achieved rapidly and on a large scale. The second task — to establish a firm connection by rail with Soviet Hungary. Communicate your directives to Antonov and the measures for verifying their fulfillment.

Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council Lenin

Written on April 21 or 22, 1919

First printed incompletely on April 21, 1957 in *Literaturnaya Gazeta* No. 48

Printed in full in Ukrainian in 1958 in the book "The Struggle of the Working People of Bukovina for Social and National Liberation and Reunification with the Ukrainian SSR. 1917-1941," Chernivtsi

Printed in full in Russian in 1961 in the book "From the History of the Civil War in the USSR," vol. 2

Printed from the manuscript